Erin Cullaro, Assistant Attorney General, Fired for Moonlighting at 'Foreclosure Mill'

She was reprimanded a year ago for working a second job with Tampa-based Florida Default Law Group, but that apparently didn't stop Erin Cullaro. The assistant attorney general carried on doing notary work for the suspected "foreclosure mill," Gov. Rick Scott's office got wind of it in March and now Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has terminated her.

In 2008, the AG's office under Bill McCollum had given Cullaro permission for dual employment, allowing her to notarize Florida Default's documents for 15 minutes three days a week. But she failed to renew her permission application for the new fiscal year, which, according to the second reprimand from Scott's office, "would have alerted the (attorney general's office) to your continued outside employment and accurately reflected the time commitment involved."

Here are three more fairly incriminating points: 1) the notary signature Cullaro has been using is not the one she was commissioned to use -- in fact, it varies significantly; and 2) Florida Default Law Group is under investigation by the AG's office for phonying up documents in foreclosure cases; and 3) until she was fired, Cullaro was working at the Tampa AG office's investigating arm, the Economic Crimes Division.

Cullaro does have an attorney, Ricardo Roig of Tampa. He was unavailable Friday morning.